Ability of Older Adults to Report Elder Abuse: An Emergency Department–Based Cross‐Sectional Study
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
سال: 2020
ISSN: 0002-8614,1532-5415
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.16211